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[quote=Anonymous]https://classes.masterpiecek12.org/visitor_class_catalog/category/952026

Also, here’s something I’d say — my kid needed prep to be really familiar with the question types.  He didn’t understand how analogy questions functioned and would confuse them with other grouping type questions.  He has been raised bilingual and didn’t have as much communication in English at home — just a series of au pairs.  He had never done paper folding cutting in school (and really not at home).

After practice tests in the mid-80th percentile, he scored 99th percentile after 15 days of prep (I thought the CoGAT was in spring, so I didn’t start prepping til we got the notice in early October that it was coming up).

So the preparation was an incredibly useful in getting him over the hump from missing ones that were obviously within his mental capability. It was deep familiarity with what the questions were actually asking, rather than over-learning.  If all you wanted was someone’s absolutely cold ability to solve unfamiliar puzzles, you’d change the test completely from year to year.  I think it tested his true abilities.

I had also heard beforehand from lots of other families in AAP that the math was so much more accelerated in AAP, and difficult for their kids to keep up with.  That has been absolutely untrue for my kid.  He destroys in math and is performing very high in reading.

If not for gentle test prep with a familiar adult (me), he’d be in Gen Ed, where he clearly doesn’t belong at this point.

Let people do what they’re going to do.  Stop with the judgment about prepping. [/quote]

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